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Page 51
I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what remains to come . I have made a great many mistakes . I have at times fallen victim to a snare to ...
I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what remains to come . I have made a great many mistakes . I have at times fallen victim to a snare to ...
Page 95
All the power of the artist's mind must be set to work on it , all his technical skill , all his experience , and whatever he has in him of character and individuality , so that with infinite pains he may present it with the ...
All the power of the artist's mind must be set to work on it , all his technical skill , all his experience , and whatever he has in him of character and individuality , so that with infinite pains he may present it with the ...
Page 99
I was much more ignorant than are , it seems to me , young men of that age at the present day . I settled down in Seville . I grew a moustache , smoked a a Filipino cigars , learnt the guitar , bought [ 99 ] THE SUMMING UP.
I was much more ignorant than are , it seems to me , young men of that age at the present day . I settled down in Seville . I grew a moustache , smoked a a Filipino cigars , learnt the guitar , bought [ 99 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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